Israeli Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, certified last year by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, died Friday at the age of 113, Israeli media reported.
Since he was an observant Jew, his family could not be reached Friday evening, the onset of the ...

Nearly five centuries after the Philippines was first colonized and more than 70 years since it was ravaged by World War II, Corregidor Island off Manila Bay continues to offer stark memories of its past.
Amid the country's evolution to a more modern society and ...

Hiroshima on Sunday marked the 72nd anniversary of its atomic bombing by the U.S., with Mayor Kazumi Matsui using the annual memorial ceremony to call on the central government to help make a treaty banning nuclear weapons a reality.
This year's ceremony at Peace Memorial ...

A paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who died of leukemia a decade after the attack, was donated Saturday to a former training site for U.S. bombing crews during World War II.
Yuji Sasaki, 47, Sadako's ...

German police on Saturday arrested two Chinese tourists for making illegal "heil Hitler" salutes in front of the historic Reichstag building that houses the German parliament.
Berlin police officers say they detained the two men, aged 36 and 49, after they were seen striking the ...

A ceremony was held in Cowra, Australia, on Saturday to commemorate those who died during a breakout of Japanese prisoners from a WWII detention camp 73 years ago.
In the early hours of Aug. 5, 1944, a group of 1,104 Japanese POWs attempted to escape ...

Ken Wilkinson, one of the last survivors of "The Few" — the band of pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain — has died. He was 99.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said Wilkinson died Monday. The group said he was "a true ...

After a lifetime of public service by the side of his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip will finally retire on Wednesday at the age of 96.
The Duke of Edinburgh will attend a parade of Royal Marines at Buckingham Palace, the last of 22,219 ...